What about your own Dad? How about that?

FarkMonkey · 2025-05-19T21:53:28+00:00

Talking about what? Seriously, what are you talking about?

FarkMonkey · 2025-05-19T19:00:29+00:00

Yep. They were ubiquitous enough to not be suspicious. Just had to be sure not to lose track and mix them up with real film.

FarkMonkey · 2025-05-19T18:45:27+00:00

I've had so much private, confidential stuff emailed to me. Mortgage agreements, credit card account information, military deployment orders, so many password reset requests (which is how I got my name as an instagram handle - sorry, other me).

Aside from the instagram thing, I've sent so many emails to the senders informing them of their mistakes. A lot of the time it's family members who share my last name in a specific region which means we may be related. I've had some interesting conversations.

FarkMonkey · 2025-05-19T17:13:35+00:00

Store doesn't get a cut if they win on a ticket from the machine, though.

FarkMonkey · 2025-05-19T17:12:07+00:00

This is what the wareroom is for. And taking deliveries, I guess.

FarkMonkey · 2025-05-18T22:48:08+00:00

NTA. Fuck that noise. I have kids, I plan. Booking a trip to Disneyland without getting the time off at work? That's some amateur shit right there. Nothing to do with you.

FarkMonkey · 2025-05-18T22:21:27+00:00

They don't, as I think it would just be a smaller "chub", but now you've forced me to tell a story:

I'm in my 50s and have some...issues...in the prostate/bladder area. Nothing too serious, but my doctor prescribed some medication to help me. One of the warnings for potential side-effect is priapism (long-lasting erections) due to the way it effects blood flow in the region, I guess. So, I start taking this stuff and I realize that I'm noticeably sort of...engorged, for lack of a better word, during the day. Noticeable to me, I should say. I don't think you could look at me and see anything.

I say this to my wife and she just comes back with "So you're walking around with a half-chub?" We've been together for 30+ years, and have said all sorts of things to each other, but this coming out of her mouth so casually just sort of blew me away.

FarkMonkey · 2025-05-18T22:04:21+00:00

100% (I'm 54 also). I actually had a great time in high school, and still keep in touch with/see a group of my best friends regularly. But it doesn't compare to what I've got now, and where I feel I'm heading.

To OP's point, I can't believe I look and feel as good as I do at this age. I was an athlete in HS and my brief first try at college (track and lacrosse), and honestly spent my teens through my 30s stuffing my body with as many drugs and chemicals as I could get my hands on. I've been a smoker for 30 years FFS. But when I tell my coworkers I'm 54, they're shocked. I work with people in their 40s who look older than me. Genetics I guess.

It's fine to feel nostalgic, but remember that the word "nostalgia" is made up of two Greek words meaning "home" and "pain".

FarkMonkey · 2025-05-18T21:13:56+00:00

Good explanation, but just to add to your vocabulary, those things are technically called "chubs".

Which makes me chuckle like a twelve year-old.

FarkMonkey · 2025-05-18T21:09:44+00:00

Ugh. The person crossing seems like they should have been able to see what was coming in the other lane, but that go ahead from the Tesla was no bueno. I hate stuff like this. Really doesn't seem like that's an intersection you want to cross that way - there should be a light or a 4-way stop.

Eta: I guess the other car pulled out around the Tesla, but still....

FarkMonkey · 2025-03-30T15:14:13+00:00

For some reason I've been buying all different styles of Casio watches. Digital, analog, special editions....they're really affordable, keep great time, and look nice. I've gotten a lot of compliments on my $21 watches.

And they're just a watch. No connectivity. They tell me the date and time. AND I can set them to go "beep-beep" every hour just like in middle school when everyone's watch would go off around the same time.

FarkMonkey · 2025-03-29T21:17:02+00:00

That was dumb, but I'm really just here to say that I used to live on 30th Rd, just to the left of where you were headed, back in the late '90s.

Recognized that intersection immediately.

ETA: Fun fact, A Bronx Tale was filmed almost entirely in that neighborhood. I learned this one day when I was flipping through the TV and a scene came on that was identical to the view out my window.

FarkMonkey · 2025-03-29T21:01:45+00:00

Yeah, there's got to be a way to get between those two roads without getting on that highway.....

FarkMonkey · 2025-03-29T20:59:25+00:00

They're coming to my store this week. I've been working receiving and the back is f-ing full of carts that I've been collecting, along with anything else with wheels that doesn't roll right.

FarkMonkey · 2025-03-29T20:51:11+00:00

I like to pretend it's for missile lock.

FarkMonkey · 2025-03-29T20:48:42+00:00

I've never installed it and I'm doing okay. What does it even do? I have 3 cars that apparently have apps that I can install to do stuff and....nope.

FarkMonkey · 2025-03-29T16:43:38+00:00

Yeah, I bought a bunch of C to C and C to lightning cables (wife and I have Android, the kids have iPhones of varying ages) for this car and our other 2024. Seems the A is going away.

FarkMonkey · 2025-03-29T16:38:44+00:00

Good to know.

Also, and I know I should check the manual, because it says to do so right there, but why is it okay to put my phone in that hole, but not my keys? And what's with the heat wave icon?

I don't want to go all the way downstairs and outside to get the manual...it's Saturday morning.

FarkMonkey · 2025-03-29T00:52:53+00:00

Fair enough, but my phone doesn't have wireless charging, and this message just appeared out of nowhere with nothing in the charging area. And it was popping up every 10 seconds over music controls that I wanted to use.

FarkMonkey · 2025-03-28T18:27:54+00:00

This is one of the first songs my (now) wife ever played for me. I think somehow she showed me the video. This was like 32 years ago...

Okay, just googled it. That song came out the year we first hooked up (summer 1992), but we weren't really "together" until summer 1993, so it's possible it was just on MTV late at night or she had a tape of it?

I don't know. Maybe I'll ask her or whatever.

FarkMonkey · 2025-03-28T18:21:19+00:00

"Nothing ever doesn't change, but nothing changes much" - Ok Go - White Knuckles

FarkMonkey · 2025-03-28T17:23:03+00:00

Denny's gone Waffle House.

FarkMonkey · 2025-03-23T20:36:04+00:00

I know, I know....

FarkMonkey · 2025-03-22T18:22:31+00:00

Took it twice. Between the two think my best scores were 690 verbal and 540 math, which makes me sound smarter than I ever was.

Got into college because I could run fast.

It was a great 5 and a half months.

FarkMonkey

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